To give you an idea of the sheer scale of the Turkey earthquake, if we overlay the USGS ShakeMap onto the British Isles, the fault (red colours) would have ruptured from the Severn Estuary to the Humber Estuary. Much of England would have seen at least Intensity Level 7 shaking. Cities such as Birmingham, Manchester, Sheffield and Bristol would be devastated and all but flattened. Our buildings would not stand up to such strong shaking. England would have essentially been sliced into two by the unzipping rupture.

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